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Fedora 21 FEDORA-2015-6903 Critical: mingw-libtiff Security Fix

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Calendar Grey May 4, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notif
Fix CVE-2014-9655 and CVE-2015-1547

Summary

The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. TIFF is a widely

used file format for bitmapped images. TIFF files usually end in the

.tif extension and they are often quite large.

The libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF

format image files.

Update Information:

Fix CVE-2014-9655 and CVE-2015-1547

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue fedora critical fix libtiff image format

Change Log

* Fri Apr 24 2015 Erik van Pienbroek - 4.0.3-6 - Fix CVE-2014-9655 and CVE-2015-1547 (RHBZ #1190712)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1190712 - CVE-2015-1547 CVE-2014-9655 mingw-libtiff: various flaws [epel-7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190712

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mingw-libtiff' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mingw-libtiff
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 4.0.3
Release: 6.fc21
URL: Summary : MinGW Windows port of the LibTIFF library

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security advisory security issue fedora critical fix libtiff image format

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